Earlier this week, Governor Heineman expressed his plans to wait to move forward on setting up a Health Care Exchange in Nebraska. Health Care Exchanges are one of the key features of the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in 2010. The exchange will be a new…...
Unnecessary Costs: Juvenile Incarceration in Nebraska
In light of the release of the No Place for Kids Report earlier today, we’re looking at some of the Nebraska-specific numbers. During the 2009-2010 state fiscal year (SFY), Nebraska spent over $17 million dollars on its two centers for juvenile incarceration – the youth residential treatment centers (YRTC) in…...
With more kids in poverty, it’s time for action
Holy smokes. Remember last week when we promised a more in-depth look at poverty data from the U.S. Census Bureau? Well, today, those data were released, and the look we promised isn’t going to be a very happy one. While the Omaha World-Herald led with a story touting Nebraska’s income growth, the takeaway here…...
Almost One in Five Nebraska Children Living in Poverty
We are diving into the data working on some charts and graphs with the newly released American Community Survey Data for later today. In the meantime, here is the press release we sent to the media this morning: 9/22/2011 CONTACT: Aubrey Mancuso, Economic Policy Coordinator Phone: (402) 597-3100 Email: amancuso@voicesforchildren.com…...
To privatize, or not to privatize
To privatize, or not to privatize – that isn’t the question. Hopefully Shakespeare will forgive us for misusing his famous soliloquy, but we couldn’t come up with a better way to summarize our reaction to recent coverage of the ongoing controversy surrounding Nebraska’s child welfare and juvenile services reform…...
